The Esquire Difference
What seventy years teaches a store
Most of what makes Esquire different can't be bought — it has to be built. A workroom of our own. Designers with no commission to chase. A warranty we'll still honor decades from now.
Five things we won’t compromise
The short version of a long reputation
Every one of these costs us something — commission-free payroll, a workroom’s rent, warranties that outlive trends. They’re also why our customers’ grandchildren shop here.
Designers who never work on commission
Advice with nothing behind it but experience. Our designers are paid to get your room right — not to sell you the expensive option.
A workroom of our own
Draperies and valances are sewn in our Ann Arbor workroom by a seamstress with 27+ years at the table. When we say custom, we mean cut, sewn and pressed here.
The house call is on us
Once the scope is set at the showroom, a designer comes out for a free in-home consultation and measure — exact, guaranteed, and with your chosen samples along to check in your own light.
Michigan’s largest Hunter Douglas showroom
Every Duette®, Silhouette® and PowerView® system, full-size and working, in one 12,000 sq ft design center.
The Best Price Promise
Find the identical product for less and we’ll match it — then back the installation for life. Five warranties in all, in writing.
- years family-owned
- 74+
- years family-owned
- sq ft design center
- 12,000
- sq ft design center
- recommend us
- 96%
- recommend us
Esquire vs. the big box
Same products, different company
You can buy a famous brand almost anywhere. What varies is everything around it — who advises you, who measures, who sews, who installs, and who picks up the phone in year nine.
Who helps you
Esquire ·A staff designer who never works on commission
Big box ·Whoever is on the floor that shift
Measuring
Esquire ·Done by us, in person, and guaranteed
Big box ·Usually your own tape measure
Custom draperies
Esquire ·Sewn in our own Ann Arbor workroom
Big box ·Outsourced, if offered at all
Installation
Esquire ·Our installers, warranted for life
Big box ·Third-party contractors
Price
Esquire ·Best Price Promise — find it for less, we match it
Big box ·Sale-cycle pricing
After the sale
Esquire ·A family that answers its own phone
Big box ·A 1-800 number
In writing
Five warranties. One that never expires.
Every Esquire project is backed by five written warranties — topped by a lifetime warranty on our installation itself. If a bracket loosens or a panel slips out of true, we come back and make it right, no matter how long you’ve lived with it. Ask your designer for the full warranty sheet; it fits on one page, on purpose.
Come see what a store with nothing to prove and everything to lose feels like.